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Poorly prepared for the dignity of life, I barely keep up with the pace of the action imposed. Reality demands.

Wislawa Szymborska

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Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!
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Blink Carry Funny Galaxy Moments
After every war someone has to tidy up.
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Clean Deep Hurt War
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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Myself Poem Quick Reading Time Work Writing
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
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Agreement Best Common Imagination Reality Regard
Dying – you can’t do that to a cat.
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Animal Cat Death Yourself
I’d have to be really quick to describe clouds – a split second’s enough for them to start being something else.
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Cloud Description Enough Myself Quick Start
I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order.
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Chaos Hell Myself Order Preference
Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
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Code Light Secret
Somewhere out there the world must have an end.
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Cosmos End Space World
There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.
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Deep Hide Quite Spiritual
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
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Book Mindset Thinking Worst
Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
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Gift Loan One Liner Perspective
What does the world get from two people/who exist in a world of their own?
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Existence People World
It’s just not easy to explain to someone else what you don’t understand yourself.
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Easy Explanation Understand Yourself
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven’t got even that much, however loveless and boring – this is one of the harshest human miseries.
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Boredom Human Love Misery Work
Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
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Boredom Day Description
Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
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Boredom Existence Joke Monumental Serious
Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.
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Beautiful Certain Confidence Life Time
They say the first love’s most important. That’s very romantic, but not my experience.
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Experience Important Love Myself Romantic
And whatever I do will become forever what I’ve done.
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Forever Myself Perspective Willing
I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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Bone Myself Time
I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.
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Book Fashion Myself Old Past Reading Thinking Time
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
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Comedy Element Preserve Tragedy
My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
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Choice Demand Loss Myself Rejection Way
Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
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Land Life Scratch Time
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
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Hands Joy Mortal Perseverance Power Revenge Writing
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
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